After nearly a month on the
mooring we’ve finally made it into Dry dock. This is where the work really
starts!
Hafskip is in desperate need
of an antifoul and we’ve had to wait for a high enough tide to get us into
Edges Boatyard. I don’t think we really appreciated this until we actually
navigated the narrow channel through the mangroves to get there, at one point
there was no more than 10 centimetres under the hull…but Ralph kept his cool
and we gently docked in the tiny slipway (think he may have lost a few
fingernails though).
It’s an amazing thing to
watch such a large, heavy thing being lifted into the air and driven to it’s
hard stand….but it’s done now and armed with grinder, paint scraper and sander
the work begins. The only catch being….we have to get it all done while the
tides are still high enough for us to get out again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4u_aNYW7E